Turns out all the snooping was mark on with this a single. We first spotted the simpler, cheaper Nook creation its way by a FCC late final month, and afterwards usually final night you got sloping off to the $150 cost point for a e-reader sans cellular tie. Now Best Buy has confirmed a whole thing with the listing of a BNRV100 indication, which comes in over $100 cheaper than Barnes and Noble’s strange ($259), although Best Buy has seen fit to give that a cost trim as good. We like where this is going, especially if it triggers B&N’s competitors to lower their own fees.

[Thanks, Paul]

Update: Barnes and Noble has right away left entirely central with its new $149 Nook. The 3G version has taken the price dump to $199 as well, matching a pricing indicated by Best Buy. B&N is currently also outing its firmware version 1.4, which allows the free use of AT&T wireless hotspots everywhere.
Show full PR text06/21/2010

Barnes & Noble Introduces NOOK™ Wi-Fi® as well as Lowers NOOK 3G Price,
Giving Book Lovers Greater Choice and Even Greater Value

At Only $149, Wi-Fi-Only Addition to NOOK Family is a Most Full-Featured, Low-Cost eBook Reader upon the Market, Now Available Online during www.nook.com

Bestseller NOOK 3G is First Dedicated eBook Reader with
Free 3G Wireless as well as Wi-Fi Connectivity Available at $199

Latest Software Update to Both NOOK Models Offers INDENTATION Customers
Complimentary Access during All AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots and Improved Reading Features

New York, New York – June 21, 2010 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), a world’s largest bookseller, is giving book lovers some-more preference and greater worth in dedicated eBook Reading devices with the addition of INDENTATION Wi-Fi to the INDENTATION by Barnes & Noble family for only $149, and a new lower cost for its award-winning NOOK 3G during $199. The new INDENTATION Wi-Fi offers all a good facilities of INDENTATION 3G – a tone touchscreen for navigation and best-in-class E-Ink® display for a great understanding knowledge – plus Wi-Fi connectivity. NOOK Wi-Fi is now accessible to order online at www.nook.com as well as www.bestbuy.com.

Barnes & Noble’s brand-new price for NOOK 3G outlines the market’s initial under-$200 dedicated full-featured eBook reader which offers both giveaway 3G wireless as well as Wi-Fi connectivity. And Barnes & Noble continues to raise the eReading experience for all INDENTATION 3G and INDENTATION Wi-Fi owners through its latest 1.4 program update, right away offering even more places to bond to Wi-Fi for giveaway as well as faster entrance to a content they wish to review.

INDENTATION Wi-Fi eBook Reader marries innovative record as well as sleek minimalist pattern with Wi-Fi connectivity. This ultimate addition to a NOOK family gives business the event to take value of the proliferation of both in-home and open Wi-Fi hotspots, where they can crop the Web and emporium the Barnes & Noble eBookstore of more than a single million eBooks, periodicals as well as other digital content. With the ultimate program update for all INDENTATION devices (now accessible during www.nook.com/update), Barnes & Noble is offering all NOOK customers complimentary access to AT&T’s complete national Wi-Fi network, including Barnes & Noble bookstores which have previously been available to NOOK business.

As part of a INDENTATION eBook Reader family, INDENTATION Wi-Fi facilities Barnes & Noble’s new thing LendMe™ technology, enabling business to share eBooks with friends for up to 14 days. NOOK Wi-Fi additionally offers the same good in-store features similar to Read In Store™ to browse complete eBooks in Barnes & Noble stores at no cost, and More In Store™, charity free, disdainful content and special promotions.

“People who adore to review will find tremendous worth with the brand-new INDENTATION Wi-Fi, the many full-featured, low-cost eReading device upon a marketplace, and the bestselling INDENTATION 3G right away during an even reduce cost,” pronounced Tony Astarita, Vice President, Digital Products, Barnes & Noble.com. “This expanded preference offers best-in-class, best-priced dedicated eBook Readers featuring eBook pity, entrance to our vast eBookstore, good free as well as disdainful calm as well as most more. And with expansion of quick as well as giveaway Wi-Fi entrance beyond Barnes & Noble stores to thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots, we’re bringing one more freedom as well as flexibility to all INDENTATION 3G and NOOK Wi-Fi business.”

Just like INDENTATION 3G, NOOK Wi-Fi facilities:

* Enriched eReading: Enjoy an immersive understanding knowledge with tone book covers to browse in your library or while selling, fast page turns, mixed rise choices and sizes and more.
* Dual displays: A fun, easy-to-use reading knowledge upon the familiar paper-like 6″ E Ink display which offers great contrast with no backlight or glisten even in bright object, as well as 3.5″ LCD reduce tone touchscreen for navigation.
* Vast catalogue of calm: Shop a Barnes & Noble eBookstore for all from classics to current bestsellers as well as download your content wirelessly in seconds. There are some-more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers available as well as free eBook samples.
* Lend to friends: Share the far-reaching operation of eBooks with friends for 14 days using exclusive LendMe™ record.
* In-store experience: Access fast as well as giveaway Wi-Fi connectivity in Barnes & Noble stores as well as suffer a beta Read In Store underline to crop many finish eBooks for giveaway, as well as a More In Store module, which offers giveaway, disdainful content and special promotions.
* Games, song and Web: Play Chess or Sudoku, listen to your favorite songs or browse a Web to check headlines as well as email.
* Light as well as moveable library: About a distance as well as weight of the paperback, a 2GB device carries approximately 1,500 eBooks and offers virtually unconstrained shelf space with expandable memory.
* Your B&N personal library: With Barnes & Noble’s Lifetime Library™, Barnes & Noble digital purchases will be permitted on BN.com and can be enjoyed on the widest variety of devices. Your eBook library goes wherever you go, giving present access to your existent Barnes & Noble digital library upon your INDENTATION device, partners’ third-party eBook readers as well as hundreds of computing as well as mobile inclination enabled with giveaway BN eReader software including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, BlackBerry®, HTC HD2™, PC as well as Mac®.
* Read for days: Long battery life equates to you won’t need to worry about recharging. With Wi-Fi incited off, suffer understanding for up to 10 days on a singular battery assign.
* Personalize with character: Customize NOOK Wi-Fi with a single of a many stylish designer accessories accessible for all NOOK inclination. Customers can select from a range of classical as well as full of color accessories written exclusively for INDENTATION devices by renowned designers kate spade brand-new york, Jack Spade, Jonathan Adler, Tahari and others.

NOOK Wi-Fi follows INDENTATION 3G’s stylish pattern as well as measure as well as is lightweight (just 11.6 ounces), making it easy to lift in the purse, briefcase, trek or suit coupler slot, only like NOOK 3G. NOOK Wi-Fi also comes with the removable white behind cover – NOOK’s is grey – as well as you can personalize your device from a preference of 4 one more good back cover colors.

All INDENTATION 3G as well as NOOK Wi-Fi customers can additionally use a enclosed USB cable to bond their device to the PERSONAL COMPUTER or Mac to send their personal files in ePub, PDF and PDB formats to their INDENTATION. Based upon Barnes & Noble’s open platform as well as Adobe technology partnership, customers can transfer as well as read personal files that implement Adobe’s ultimate digital rights government or have been rights-free. Barnes & Noble’s make use of of Adobe technology as well as ePub format also allows business to review their digital content opposite the flourishing star of inclination.

NOOK Wi-Fi Available for Order Today
Just in time for summer understanding, INDENTATION Wi-Fi is right away accessible for purchase online during www.nook.com for $149 and will begin shipping this week. A bookseller during the Barnes & Noble store can additionally assistance customers place an order. INDENTATION Wi-Fi can also be systematic during www.bestbuy.com. Barnes & Noble expects INDENTATION Wi-Fi will be in-stock in select Barnes & Noble as well as Best Buy stores for immediate squeeze after this month as well as rolling out to all stores later this summer.

INDENTATION 3G continues to offer both giveaway 3G wireless and Wi-Fi connectivity to give business some-more ways to shop on-the-go. INDENTATION 3G is in batch during Barnes & Noble stores and during www.nook.com with the brand-new cost of $199. NOOK 3G is also accessible during Best Buy and www.bestbuy.com.

Visit a INDENTATION opposite during any Barnes & Noble store to see, reason as well as hold NOOK and sense some-more about eBooks as well as eReading from a knowledgeable Barnes & Noble bookseller who can assistance determine which INDENTATION eBook Reader best fits the customer’s needs. Barnes & Noble offers the most appropriate opportunity to try before you buy in both Barnes & Noble as well as Best Buy stores.

NOOK v1.4 Update: Complimentary AT&T Wi-Fi Access as well as More
Barnes & Noble additionally voiced which its ultimate NOOK v1.4 program gives all NOOK 3G as well as INDENTATION Wi-Fi customers complimentary high-speed entrance to AT&T’s complete national Wi-Fi network, together with restaurants, hotels as well as one more locations opposite the country that can be found at www.att.com/go. So now, in addition to Barnes & Noble stores, all INDENTATION customers can suffer free-high-speed entrance to crop the Barnes & Noble eBookstore as well as the Web upon their NOOKs in thousands some-more places.

The latest INDENTATION program additionally offers a Go To Page underline, a single of the most frequent enhancements requested by NOOK users, which allows customers to burst to the specific page number in an open eBook, an additional additional vast font as well as opening enhancements to open eBooks even faster.

INDENTATION v1.4 program is now accessible around primer download at www.nook.com/update with additional information as well as easy-to-follow directions. NOOKs continuous to Wi-Fi will embrace an involuntary NOOK v1.4 refurbish upon syncing over a subsequent week.